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rfectly equipped batteries which were left to the Army of the Potomac after the First Bull Run consisted, as has been noted, of only thirty guns.
These had six hundred and fifty men and four hundred horses.
When the army took the field, in March, 1862, the light artillery consisted of ninety-two batteries of five hundred and twenty guns, twelve thousand five hundred men, and eleven thousand horses, all fully equipped and in readiness for fieldservice.
Of this force, thirty batteries were rof the officers' mess at the time, is leaning against the tent-pole.
The first Independent Battery of Light Artillery from New York was organized at Auburn and mustered in November 23, 1861.
It was on duty in the defenses of Washington until March, 1862, when it moved to the Peninsula by way of Fortress Monroe.
Its first action was at Lee's Mills, April 5, 1861; it took part in the siege of Yorktown, and fought at Lee's Mills again on April 16th.
It served throughout the Peninsula campaign,

henever American iron of acceptable quality was presented, it was always used in preference to foreign iron, other things being equal.
The chief of ordnance stated that he had no doubt there was a sufficient quantity of good American material, but up to that time the producer had not furnished it, and a resort to foreign markets was a necessity.
The difficulties experienced with small arms were repeated with the ammunition.
When the Army of the Potomac took the field in the middle of March, 1862, for the Peninsula campaign, the Ordnance Department held, at the Washington Arsenal, sixteen million five hundred thousand rounds of smallarms ammunition, for five different kinds of arms, in reserve.
This ammunition was for smooth-bore muskets, caliber .58; foreign muskets of various makes, caliber .577, and nondescript, unclassified muskets, caliber .54.
For carbines and pistols of various kinds, one million rounds were in reserve.
For artillery there were sixty-four thousand two hu